The Lighthouse Keeper's Rescue

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BfK No. 71 - November 1991

Cover StoryThe illustration on the front of BfK this month is the cover of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass with illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. The book is published by Macmillan (0 333 29037 2) at £9.99, and we're grateful for their help in using this picture of Alice and the White Knight.

The Lighthouse Keeper's Rescue

After The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch (the book that launched a thousand infant technology projects) and The Lighthouse Keeper's Catastrophe, this book seems to me to prove the law of diminishing returns. It is, certainly, a perfectly serviceable story about the time when the Lighthouse Keeper faces the sack for falling asleep on the job, but the ending is contrived and the prose flat. It has none of the logicality and lateral thinking of the lunch story and none of the suspense of the catastrophe. This makes it rather ordinary. Perhaps the Lighthouse Keeper should be retired, after all.